Tom Ford – mens fashion designer, filmmaker, entrepeneur

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Tom Ford was born in Austin, Texas in 1962, but spent most of his childhood years in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tom Ford enrolled on an art history course at New York University and was also trained as an actor. It was there he discovered the seminal Studio 54 nightclub and Warhol’s Factory, where he met [...]

Yves Saint Laurent – fashion designer of Haute Couture

Very young Yves Saint Laurent

Yves Saint Laurent was born in 1936 in Algeria and died in June 2008.
Having won the first prize in the International Wool Secretariat contest in 1954, he went to work for Christian Dior as a young designer.
After Diors death in 1957, Saint Laurent became Haute Couture designer. The following year saw him win the Neiman-Marcus [...]